Ntl Broadband and networking
10 May 2002, 08:48 PM
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Hi Folks
Is anyone running a Cable Modem and Lan if so could you let me know how your doing it as ntl claim it cant be done/wont help
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Si
Is anyone running a Cable Modem and Lan if so could you let me know how your doing it as ntl claim it cant be done/wont help
Cheers
Si
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14 May 2002, 10:50 PM
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So I'm not allowed to plug the lead from the RJ45 on the cable modem to the WAN socket on my router, and from then take leads from the LAN sockets on the router to 2 different PCs ?
Oh dear, norty me
Oh, and my router cost £62.00 + VAT
[Edited by Figment - 5/14/2002 10:51:50 PM]
Oh dear, norty me
Oh, and my router cost £62.00 + VAT
[Edited by Figment - 5/14/2002 10:51:50 PM]
05 October 2002, 10:23 PM
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Errrr, I'm doing it now 
I have a Terayon TeraJet 210 cable modem feeding via UTP to a network card on my firewall. The firewall has a second network card feeding the network hub which in turn feed the other computers
You can use a hardware router instead of my firewall setup which cost about £200 which will do the trick.
It def. can be done on NTL
H
[Edited cause I'm plastered ]
[Edited by HHxx - 5/10/2002 10:25:48 PM]
I have a Terayon TeraJet 210 cable modem feeding via UTP to a network card on my firewall. The firewall has a second network card feeding the network hub which in turn feed the other computers
You can use a hardware router instead of my firewall setup which cost about £200 which will do the trick.
It def. can be done on NTL
H
[Edited cause I'm plastered
][Edited by HHxx - 5/10/2002 10:25:48 PM]
05 December 2002, 01:29 AM
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What NTL mean is you cant run a LAN device like a hub or switch directly from the Cable Modem. You can as others have suggested go for several options to overcome this - the easiest/cheapest is to use one pc as a proxy/gateway/firewall with two ethernet cards - one to the cable modem and one to another PC or hub/switch depending on how many machines you wish to connect. Using a hub makes it easier for adding additional PC's in the future.
Main drawback is that the main PC needs to be on whenever u want connectivity to the internet which makes it a pain with my PC as it has a delta 5800rpm cpu fan which sounds like a chopper taking off. To overcome this some people fork out for a Cable/DSL router which links direct to the Cable Modem however this is a lot more expensive (around £100 min).
[Edited by P1Fanatic - 5/12/2002 1:30:16 AM]
Main drawback is that the main PC needs to be on whenever u want connectivity to the internet which makes it a pain with my PC as it has a delta 5800rpm cpu fan which sounds like a chopper taking off. To overcome this some people fork out for a Cable/DSL router which links direct to the Cable Modem however this is a lot more expensive (around £100 min).
[Edited by P1Fanatic - 5/12/2002 1:30:16 AM]
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